I have been pretty awful at keeping the blog up to date recently, so I am going to try and have another go. Unfortunately, this will be there is a chunk of what I was doing missing but can be found in my sketchbooks. I will give a quick run down on whats currently been taking place.
Previously, I was interested in nature, specifically the structures of the plants and how they could be represented in a 3D formation and possibly taken as inspiration for some sort of enclosure. It then progressed into intervening with the natural landscapes by using the natural resources around me to make sculptures, wrapping trees with materials and mapping my walks through the natural landscape with interventions at different markers and creating "rules" and walking/working in a systematic way, i.e. every 30 steps i will pick up a natural object, mark on map, cast it and then replace it.
However, on one walk in the forests, I felt very unsafe, as I walked into some sort of weird make shift campsite and random dogs would run out with no owner. At this point, I thought that I should abandon working in heavily wooded areas unless I was in company.
I reflected on what I was actually interested in doing, in a safe way. The conclusion was actually instead of intervening with the landscape, I was interested in:
- Mapping the landscape.
- The rules of the walk that I had put in place and had to stick to, because it kept me focused on what I actually needed to do.
- Walking - the action.
- Boundaries.
- Contrasting natural and urban environments.
- Ways of mapping a space 3 dimensionally.
- Spatial awareness.
Artists I was looking at:
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Chris Drury
- Richard Long
- Walter De Marie
